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University Daily, Kanşan
Friday, April 26, 1963
Alliance for Progress
The students visiting KU from El Salvador made some revealing comments on the Alliance for Progress. Their views on this subject are well worth listening to and remembering, for the students at that nation's only university form one of the most powerful political pressure groups in the country.
When asked if expression of student opinion were suppressed in El Salvador, one of the students remarked that although the government had no qualms about putting extreme pressure on other political dissenters, it would not dare get rough with the students because of their tremendous political awareness and influence.
HOWEVER. HE did not criticize North American students for their relative lack of interest and activity in national politics. He said the United States has sufficiently large and competent stock of professional politicians to relieve the North American students of this responsibility, at least to the extent that it falls on Latin American university students.
The rarified atmosphere here on the Hill is not to be found on the campus of El Salvador's university. Students there are very close to the practical every-day politics of their nation. Their opinions on the Alliance for Progress should have much more validity than the average North American student's opinion on Medicare, for example.
In answer to a request for general opinions on and evaluations of the Alliance for Progress, one student mentioned a specific example of an Alliance for Progress project that had helped make the entire program unpopular. She told of an airport that was to be built through the Alliance for Progress. The airport itself was welcome, but
the strings attached were wide open to criticism.
THE ALLIANCE for Progress would finance the airport, but only on the condition that the technical personnel and engineers be from the United States. The semi-skilled labor could be El Salvadoran, but the cream of the wages would go right back to the United States. She said it appeared that the Alliance for Progress in this case was being used to help alleviate the United States' unemployment problems rather than to help El Salvador.
Resentment of this sort can hardly be avoided. The Latin Americans are proud people, and they do not like the implication that their technical skills are inadequate. The reaction is an emotional one in this case, for engineers and technicians are not a part of the United States' unemployment problem but, quite the contrary, are in great demand.
The United States must have some guarantee that its money is well spent, and this is possible only through direction of the construction. Technical skill is hardly a strong point in the Latin American labor force. In this respect the resentment is misdirected, but it is not without some basis.
THERE CAN be little doubt that the United States is trying to bolster its own economy. That the Alliance for Progress should help the United States as well as Latin America hardly seems unreasonable. No matter who builds the airport in question, when it is finished it will belong to El Salvador.
It is unfortunate that national pride and propaganda must be such an important obstacle in the path of practical benefits.
— Dennis Branstiter
HOW TO STUDY BETTER AND GET HIGHER MARKS, by Eugene H. Ehrlich—a guide for high school and college students. Ehrlich, who is in charge of reading and study habits improvement work at Columbia University, describes ways to increase reading speed, tactics for getting higher exam grades, ways to improve writing skills, steps to master scientific material, ways to develop an ear for language, and techniques for getting more out of study time.
DELTA WEDDING, by Eudora Welty (Signet, 75 cents)—Eudora Welty is one of the South's finest writers, and this is her best-known novel, a story about a southern family living a life scarcely accommodated to 20th century ways. The Fairchild clan includes Battle, head of the family; Ellen, his wife; the great-aunt Shannon; George, best of the lot, and Robbie, George's wife. The time is the twenties. The mood is placid, different from either Faulkner or Carson McCullers, whose work is in the same vein.
Feiffer's Cartoons Weekly in Kansan
Jules Feiffer, nationally syndicated cartoonist and satirist of the American scene, will appear weekly in the Kansan beginning today.
Feiffer went to school in New York and received his art training at the Art Students' League and Pratt Institute. He was employed as assistant to several cartoonists.
His cartoons were collected into a book called "Sick, Sick, Sick," published by McGraw-Hill in April 1958. By the end of December the book had sold 100,000 copies and Feilfer's strip was being picked up by a London weekly. The Observer. His work was also appearing in Esquire, the Sunday Times magazine, Sports Illustrated, and other magazines.
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Letters to the Editor
Northrop's Speech Distorted
Editor:
For those of us who read the article entitled "Senate Rapped By Northrop" and also heard the lecture our disgust with inaccurate news reporting is indeed compelled to rise. The major points of Northrop's lectures should be summarized before the inaccuracies of the UDK article are exposed. The Yale professor contends that two schools of political-legal-theological thought were predominant in 17th century England. One of these schools was transferred to the "First Families of Virginia" and, consequently, to some of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. This school of thought did not employ the Lockean principle of tolerance. In creating the United States government a bicameral legislature was thus a must if the institutional framework of the new government was to take the legal, common-law traditions of various sections into consideration. It would be only in such an institutional arrangement that the Lockean idea of tolerance could develop. And according to Northrop the Senate is undemocratic, but the Senate was not "rapped" by him.
The UDK article also reported two more remarks incorrectly—although these articles were not quite as glaring. Northrop did not "hope that India can make its liberal democracy a visable one." He said viable. The other correction to be made concerns Northrop's comment on the Declaration of Independence. He did not say that this document was "based on the Lockean principle that everyone is born free," but that everyone is born "equal." People, according to the Lockean principle, are born equal with one another in that none of them has yet entered into the contract that makes them citizens of society.
If the news reporter for the UDK wants to distort the news for the sake of glamor and controversy he could have at least distorted one of the major points of the lecture.
Gene Mason Brownfield, Texas graduate student
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